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A 46-year-old woman with a second early-stage primary cancer in her left breast has elected to have a bilateral mastectomy with saline implants. She has requested that the surgeon also revise a small unsightly scar on her right knee and pierce her ears. While the patient’s breast tumor could be treated with an excisional biopsy, she has decided to have a mastectomy of both breasts, which is considered an appropriate preemptive (preventative) surgery for a woman of her age with two primary cancers of the breast. The saline implant insertion surgery is considered a _______________ procedure, the scar revision is considered a ___________ procedure, and the ear-piercing is considered a _______________ procedure.

While a client is being interviewed on her first prenatal visit she states that she has a 4-year-old son who was born at 41 weeks’ gestation and a 3-year-old daughter who was born at 35 weeks’ gestation. The client lost one pregnancy at 9 weeks and another at 18 weeks. Using the GTPAL system, how would you record this information?

Glucagon increases blood glucose concentration and insulin decreases it. This is an example of _____.

Which medication would the nurse anticipate providing teaching about for an adolescent with dysmenorrhea?

When closing the peritoneum or intestine, which type of needle is used?

What is the name of the triangular area at the base of the bladder comprised of the ureteral orifices and the bladder neck?

An infant is admitted to the nursery after a shoulder dystocia vaginal delivery. For which condition would the nurse assess the newborn?

Which of the following hernias is typically the result of postoperative wound dehiscence?

Which of the following is a factor affecting instrument choice for retraction?

What are important anatomic landmarks during OBGYN surgical procedures?